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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution." -- Thomas Jeffferson, 1799
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"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." -- Harriet Tubman
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,759 icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,382
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Obama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level
By Paul Craig Roberts
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Libya is Another Case of Selective Vigilantism by the West
By Tariq Ali
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NATO Chief Opens The Door to Libya Ground Troops
By Spencer Ackerman
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Obama Lacks Clarity on Afghan War
By Ray McGovern
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America's Growing Intolerance
How "Enemy Creep" Is Guantanamo-izing America
By Karen J. Greenberg
You only had to listen to the recent hearings convened by New York
Republican Congressman Peter King on radicalization and the Muslim
religion to know that, if the ascending right in Washington (and
elsewhere) has its way, the age of tolerance in America is over. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27787.htm
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Prison for Peacemakers in Tacoma, Washington
By Bill Quigley
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Worse Than Chenobyl.
When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
By Dr. Tom Burnett
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Housing Market Blues
The bleeding continues
By Mike Whitney
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Tracking Our Downward Spiral
The Ways in Which America Still "Leads' the World
By Richard Clark
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R.I.P: Bageant Moves On
We don't last, and there's no warranty
By Fred Reed
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Hostage siege kills 21 in Iraq:
Gunmen wearing military uniforms and suicide bomb belts stormed a
local government headquarters in northern Iraq on Tuesday in an attempt
to take hostages that killed at least 21 people, officials said. http://ind.pn/eXZu79
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Two people killed, five wounded in Iraq's violence:
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Pakistan: Friendly fire killed 13 soldiers:
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Taliban overrun district, NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan:
Taliban militants overran a district in the north-eastern Afghan
province of Nuristan after overpowering local forces, while a NATO
soldier died in an attack in the same region, officials said http://bit.ly/gkkzMY
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Afghanistan: More children killed in US-NATO air attacks:
A NATO helicopter strike in the southern Afghanistan province of
Helmand last Friday killed seven civilians, including three children.
The atrocity is the latest in a series of recent US-led bombing
operations that have inflicted mass civilian casualties. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/afgh-m29.shtml
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U.S. brigade murdered and mutilated innocent Afghan civilians:
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MoD pays £1.3m compensation to Afghans for death, injury and damage:
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Afghan Elite Borrowed Freely From Kabul Bank:
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Scandal-tainted Kabul Bank to be sold off:
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Libyan rebels retreating after Gadhafi onslaught:
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Gaddafi's troops halt rebel advance:
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Regime change by any other name:
U.S. Gives Its Air Power Expansive Role in Libya:
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Libya: Cameron and Sarkozy demand that 'Gaddafi must go':
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Libya: Coalition bombing may be in breach of UN resolution's legal limits:
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More countries slam NATO action in Libya:
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British officials 'working with rebels in East':
David Cameron said British officials were liaising with rebel
ground forces in eastern Libya. "We are actually now in proper contact
with the rebels and a Foreign Office official is now having proper
discussions with them, which I think is vital as we need to get to know
and work with them http://ind.pn/hsu0Ft
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Qatar recognises Libyan rebels after oil deal:
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Libya: it wasn't supposed to be like this in free Benghazi:
The young gunmen at the roadblock took no chances. They put a knife
to the throat of the driver before hauling the three men and one woman
from the car, dragging them through the street into a nearby mosque
for a rough round of interrogation. http://bit.ly/gRcVkq
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Gaddafi forces intimidate rebels :
Al Jazeera has received video which appears to show soldiers loyal
to Muammar Gaddafi beating pro-democracy fighters who they had
detained. http://youtu.be/s6o7c-Ev8n4
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Turkey to take over Benghazi airport:
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Fact or propaganda?
Diplomats discuss Libya's future as Italy plots Gaddafi's escape route:
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Syrian cabinet resigns amid unrest:
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Syrians rally to support Assad:
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'Abbas would give up US aid to reconcile with Hamas': Adviser to Abaas:
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Israel cuts ties with PA if new unified government formed:
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Drafting Palestinian constitution prepares for establishment of independent state:
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How Palestinians will use the UN General Assembly to advance statehood:
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Israel threatens unilateral steps if UN recognizes Palestinian state:
Foreign Ministry instructs envoys in 30 countries to send
'diplomatic protest' to host nations over plan for September vote in
General Assembly. http://bit.ly/gJwTOf
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Facebook removes page calling for a 'Third Palestinian Intifada':
In the original page, Palestinians are urged to take to the streets
after Friday prayers on May 15 and begin an uprising in the vein of
the first two popular uprisings. http://bit.ly/e4Vunj
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Does Abbas support Bahrain's crackdown on protesters?
Abbas briefed by Bahrain king:
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Bahraini troops close in on protesters:
Bahraini army troops have besieged mourning demonstrators in the
northeastern village of Ma'ameer as the Persian Gulf state sees more
violence against anti-government protests. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172152.html
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Yemen govt loses control of 6 of 18 provinces:
Yemen's political crisis deepened today as President Ali Abdullah
Saleh refused to step down in the face of mounting desertions by his
supporters and officials said the government had lost control of six of
the country's 18 provinces. http://bit.ly/eq7Njy
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'US, Saudis keep Saleh in power':
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been able to stay in power
only by relying on foreign supports and funding, especially from the US
and Saudi Arabia, Director of Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs
(IGA) says. http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=233816
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Yemen's Saleh tried to get Saudis to kill rival: WikiLeaks: -
Yemen President Ali Abdallah Saleh tried to get Ali Mohsen
al-Ahmar, now a leading dissident officer, killed last year by tricking
Saudi forces into bombing his headquarters, a Norwegian daily said
Monday, quoting a leaked US cable. http://yhoo.it/hshy7u
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Ouattara claims capturing major city:
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Ivory Coast braced for final battle as city falls:
The area along the Liberian border has seen limited fighting for
several weeks, but the latest push could open the way for troops loyal
to Alassane Ouattara to march south to the strategic port of San Pedro,
or east to the political capital of Yamoussoukro. http://ind.pn/gcYYhd
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UN: Gbagbo forces behind Abidjan 'atrocity':
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Mohammed Jawad, A Child in Guantánamo, and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him:
Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through
the general - and shameful - indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a
powerful story that should change hearts and minds. http://bit.ly/gVxCRZ
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Japan on 'alert' over radiation fears:
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Japan on 'maximum alert' over N-crisis:
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Fukushima soil contains plutonium traces, according to Japanese officials:
Earlier, the government confirmed that levels of radioactivity in
water leaking from a reactor at the facility resulted from a partial
meltdown of fuel rods, amid growing fears that radiation may also have
seeped into seawater and soil. http://bit.ly/hN6Osg
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Japan: Rainwater banned at water plants:
The health ministry has instructed water purification plants
nationwide to temporarily stop taking in rainwater to prevent tap water
being contaminated from radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima
No. 1 nuclear plant, ministry officials said Sunday. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110329a2.html
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EU to ban cars from cities by 2050:
Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe
under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent
over the next 40 years. http://bit.ly/fDQ62D
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Gold Replacing Dollar as World's Reserve Currency?:
$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at
2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send
central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their
savings. After all, the dollar has been the reserve currency since
World War I. http://www.cnbc.com/id/42250806 | 
